on his return to Patras he was again seized with more than usual severity. He writes "After eighteen days, by the blessing of our heavenly Father, 1 again rose from my bed. But the time of recovery was not yet. After a few days I suffered a relapse, but little less severe than the first attack, which confined me to my bed again for two weeks. During my sickness, our children were both taken seriously ili, as were also the son of Mrs. Dickson, Mrs. D., Mrs. Love, the two domestics and an assistant. Sabbath, March 15, not a person in our house was able to rise from the bed, and there was not one of them not dangerously ill. For a time we were entirely alone. But the presence of our heavenly Father was manifest in a peculiar manuer, and I trust He sanctified to us the sorrows and sufferings of that day. Thus we were all confined till near the middle of April. If any recovered partially, it was only to suffer relapses but little less, and in some cases more severe than the original attack." Mr. Love left Patras in compliance with the advice of his physician, there being no hope of his recovery while remaining at that place, and no good reason to hope that he would not still be subject to similar attacks if he should again return to reside there. The climate of Corfu, he says, is healthy, and apparently free from the miasma of Patras. He expresses the hope that all the members of his family were out of danger. Mrs. Dickson sailed May 15 for Scotland, where she contemplates remaining a sufficient time to recover her health, having also suffered repeated attacks of fever at Patras. GERMANY.-We learn by the June number of the Baptist (Eng.) Magazine, that Mr. Oncken, missionary at Hamburg, has been arrested by an order of the Senate and cast into prison. The London papers further state that two police officers have been stationed at the meetinghouse, to prevent the congregation from assembling in it for worship. No communications to this effect have been made to the Board, from this mission; still, from the state of things known to exist in Hamburg, there is much reason to fear that the intelligence is true. By the last Missionary (Eng.) Herald, we received the painful intelligence of the death of the Rev. W. H. Pearce, whose return to Calcutta, from England, was noticed on p. 94 of the present vol. of the Magazine. He died of cholera, at Calcutta, March 17, 1840. Information of this afflictive event was communicated by Rev. Mr. Yates to Dr. Hoby, which reached England May 8. Further particulars concerning the death of this esteemed brother may soon be expected. Old Colony Baptist Miss. Soc., Levi Peirce treasurer, per Mr. Petty, Boston, a member of 1st Baptist Canton, a friend to missions 14,00 150,00 50,00 88,25 10,00 10,00 50,00 9,00 382,75 10,00 68,25 50,00 118,25 19,00 28,89 per Rev. S. H. Cone, "McDougal St. Baptist church, per Rev. Duncan Dunbar, 100,00 William Dunn 50 Rockford, Winnebago co., George Haskell, per A. Wilbur, LEGACIES. Estate of Daniel Smith, Ky., de ecutor, (in part,) per Rev. A. Kingsbury, Washington co., N. Y. The sum of $5000 has been received from the American and Foreign Bible Society, per William Colgate, treasurer, to be appropriated to the circulating of the scriptures in Asia. BOXES OF CLOTHING, &C. Lawrence, N. Y., Foreign Missionary Society, a bundle containing blanket, crash, yaru, &c., for C. H. Slafter. Worcester, Mass., a box of clothing for Leonard Slater. Lebanon and N. Berwick, Me., members Bap. ch. and soc., box of clothing for Rev. Ivory Clarke and African mission school, Chelmsford, Ms., Reading Society, a bed-spread, for Indian mission. East Randolph, Vt., Sewing Society, a box of clothing. Norwich, Conn., Female Miss. Soc., a box of clothing, hard ware, communion service, &c., for J. H. Vinton, South Brookfield, Mass., friends, a box of clothing for T. Simons, Philadelphia, Am. Pub. and S. S. Society, publications of do., per B. R. Loxley, for A. Judson. New York, For. Miss. Society, 1st Baptist ch., a box of books, hosiery, papers, &c., for J. L. Shuck. Cummington, Mass., Robert Dawes, box of clothing, essences, books, &c. for L. Ingalls. Kilmarnock, Va., Rev. A. Hall, box of clothing, books, &c., for J. L. Shuck, Stratford, Ct., Rev. James H. Linsley, books for J. H. Vinton, Boston, Mass., friends, two mattresses for Miss Rizpah Warren. 390,00 $8368,81 37,71 14,00 20,00 65,01 25,00 Mrs. Dow 1,00 $27,00€ 3,12 H. LINCOLN, Treasurer. [A portion of the infinitude of systems, each in every particular like all the others.t] *The system of orthography observed in this article, is that now generally adopted in India, when writing names and words of Indian a like a in American á like a in father u like u in duty origin, viz: i like i in pin like i in machine o like o in not ú like u in rule ai like ai in aisle ái like ay in aye. e like e in they The drawings from which the accompanying cuts have been executed, were furnished by Rev. Abner Webb, late missionary at Rangoon. |